Let her eat cake- Red Velvet Cake of course
"Border czar Kamala Harris skipped a high-level meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Friday which was intended to discuss the migrant crisis at the US's southern border - to visit a daycare center in New Jersey instead. "
Border czar Kamala SKIPS crisis meeting with Mexican president to visit a daycare center and bakery in NJ and sends Secretary of State Blinken in her place
The vice president delegated the high-level meeting about the migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
Blinken was joined by Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, US Attorney General Merrick Garland and US Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar
Harris chose instead to visit a daycare center at Montclair State University in Little Falls and a vaccination site at Essex County Community College in Newark
She appeared to work up an appetite stopping by cake shop Tonnie's Minis where she bought red velvet cake
The vice president was tapped as Joe Biden's border czar back in March but has come under fire from Republicans for her handling of the crisis since
She was slammed for failing to visit the border, finally bowing to pressure and going to El Paso, Texas, in June
By REUTERS and MAILONLINE REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 11:21 EDT, 8 October 2021
"The vice president, who was put in charge of tackling the border crisis by Joe Biden back in March, delegated the thorny meeting in Mexico's capital to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Blinken was joined by Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and US Attorney General Merrick Garland and US Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar in efforts to mend America's fractious ties with Mexico.
As officials from the two nations worked hashed out a new security cooperation accord and deal with a surge in migration across the border, Harris was nowhere to be seen.
Instead, Harris spent the day in New Jersey where she played bingo with kids at a daycare center, stopped by a vaccination site and even had time to sample some cake at a Newark bakery.
The vice president has repeatedly come under fire from Republicans over her handling of the migrant crisis, ever since she was tapped by Biden as America's border czar.
Harris was especially slammed for her failure to visit the border to see the state of affairs for herself.
She finally bowed to pressure and visited the border at El Paso, Texas, in June. It is the only time she's been to the border since taking office.
On her New Jersey day trip, Harris visited the Ben Samuels Child Care Center at Montclair State University in Little Falls where she met with students and teachers.
The vice president, who was joined by Governor Phil Murphy and Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill, stopped by several classrooms to meet kids and joined in with a game of shapes bingo.
She then joined a group of educators for a roundtable about the importance of supporting working parents.
Harris then headed to a COVID-19 vaccination site at Essex County Community College in Newark to thank healthcare workers and encourage people to get the shot.
The vice president appeared to have worked up an appetite as she then stopped by cake shop Tonnie's Minis where she was joined by Senator Cory Booker.
Harris bought red velvet cupcakes and slices of carrot, pineapple coconut and chocolate-covered sponge cake.
Meanwhile, Blinken was taken on a mural tour of the National Palace by Lopez Obrador before the two delegations had a working breakfast.
They were joined at the crisis meeting by Garland, Salazar, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard and Secretary of Public Security and Citizen Protection of Mexico Rosa Icela Rodriguez.
Blinken said Lopez Obrador's earlier comments were 'exactly in line' with what Biden has in mind for the US-Mexico relationship.
'I'm very inspired by the vision you expressed. The work now we have to do to translate that into reality, into truly a transformational partnership, a shared responsibility,' Blinken said at the start of the breakfast meeting.
Mayorkas tweeted that the meeting represented an 'important new phase' in the partnership between the nations.
'Today's High-Level Security Dialogue marks an important new phase in the US-Mexico security partnership,' Mayorkas tweeted.
'We will work together under a new framework to guide our joint efforts, and work toward our shared goals of security and prosperity for our two nations'.
Blinken's visit is part of the Biden administration's first US-Mexico High-Level Security Dialogue, in which the two countries will negotiate a sweeping new agreement on how to tackle everything from drug flows to the United States to the smuggling of US-made guns into Mexico."
Sauce/more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10073323/Blinken-meets-Lopez-Obrador-soothe-thorny-U-S-Mexico-relations.html
Nice to see the SS guys earning that pay protecting HoBag from the chillins.